said by en102 :

Promotion through failure.

said by knightmb :

It's real easy, just send a resume to some big company, make up a ton of fake experience doing "major" executive stuff, have a friend on a number to call to "verify" this and that's it. I've seen it done many times before.

President of AOL Broadband, Premium and Developer Services, where she grew the AOL Broadband service from 300,000 subscribers to over five million subscribers in less than two years. She also created AOL's Premium Services business in early 2003, which grew to over two million subscribers by year-end 2004. Earlier, Hook launched AOL's wireless and voice services businesses.

Prior to joining AOL in 2000, Hook was a partner at Brera Capital Partners LLC, a private equity firm focused on media and telecommunications. She also served in a number of executive roles with Time Warner, Inc. including Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Time Warner Telecom, Special Advisor to the Vice Chairman and Vice President of Time Warner, Inc., managing telecom-related transactions.

Earlier in her career, Hook served as the Legal Advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and as Senior Attorney at Viacom International Inc., where she oversaw the legal department of Viacom's cable division